The Queen's Gambit Now a Major Netflix Drama

<p><b>NOW A MAJOR NETFLIX SERIES starring Anya Taylor-Joy</b> <b>from Academy-Award nominee Scott Frank and BAFTA nominee Allan Scott</b><br> <br> '<b>Superb</b>' <i>Time Out</i><br> <b><i>'</i>Mesmerizing</b>' <i>Newsweek</i><br> '<b>Gripping</b><i>' Financial Times</i><br> '<b>Sheer entertainment. It is a book I reread every few years - for the pure pleasure and skill of it</b>' Michael Ondaatje<br> '<b>Don't pick this up if you want a night's sleep</b>' <i>Scotsman</i><br> <br> When she is sent to an orphanage at the age of eight, Beth Harmon soon discovers two ways to escape her surroundings, albeit fleetingly: playing chess and taking the little green pills given to her and the other children to keep them subdued. Before long, it becomes apparent that hers is a prodigious talent, and as she progresses to the top of the US chess rankings she is able to forge a new life for herself. But she can never quite overcome her urge to self-destruct. For Beth, there's more at stake than merely winning and losing.<br> <br> <b>'Few novelists have written about genius - and addiction - as acutely as Walter Tevis'</b> <i>The T</i><i>elegraph</i></p>